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Writer's pictureNolcha Fox

Happy New Year, My Spence, from Kate

Updated: Feb 14, 2024

This is the oldest story, it reruns on late-night TV.

You won’t leave her, you won’t leave me,

And I can’t leave you, either.


We are a famous triangle, one I call Bermuda.

We’re lost in some dense fog called love,

adrift, no oars, no sail.


While currents bring you safe to shore

and you go back to family,

I celebrate the coming year in black and white, alone.


If I were smart, I would resolve to leave us far behind.

But heartstrings are too tangled up to disentwine.

We’re better off this way.


We will remain a close-kept secret everybody knows.

Though we appear to live apart,

I’d die before I’d let you die alone.


From Wikipedia: Katharine Hepburn (1907–2003) and Spencer Tracy (1900–1967) were a legendary cinematic couple, both on- and off-screen. They starred in nine films together, and had an affair — an open secret in Hollywood — that lasted 26 years, ending only with Tracy’s death.(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katharine_Hepburn_and_Spencer_Tracy)


They never married and lived separately.


published in Write Under the Moon



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